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904th Contracting Battalion demystifies federal acquisition for Savannah area small businesses

FORT STEWART, GA-The 904th Contracting Battalion recently executed a federal contracting workshop in partnership with the Savannah Chamber of Commerce....

Jun 17 • 4:45 PM EDT • Business • army.mil

#New40k – New app for a new edition

Share army rules and track game scores in the updated Warhammer 40,000 app.

Jun 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com

The preening prince of perfection

Stride across the battlefield with contempt thanks to Sigvald’s new Army of Renown for Warhammer Age of Sigmar.

Jun 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com

Next team to break MLB’s championship drought, Misiorowski & Yamamoto pitch gems and the Tartan Army invades Fenway Park

Jun 15 • 3:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Fort Leavenworth AFWC relocation supports greater access to preventive health services

The Fort Leavenworth Armed Forces Wellness Center will temporarily close June 19 as the program relocates to a new location on post within Munson Army Health Center. The center is scheduled to reopen June 29.

Jun 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Scotland's Tartan Army switches sports for a day in Boston

Thousands of Scotland supporters who have descended on Boston for ​the World Cup took time ‌off from football on Sunday to switch their focus to a different sport - baseball.

Jun 14 • 9:48 PM EDT • Sports • reuters.com

Italy’s Meloni faces a far-right dilemma as 'Il Generale' Vannacci rises

Roberto Vannacci, a former Italian army general, is shaking up Italy’s political scene with his new party, Futuro Nazionale

Jun 14 • 10:03 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Italy’s Meloni faces a far-right dilemma as 'Il Generale' Vannacci rises

Roberto Vannacci, a former Italian army general, is shaking up Italy's political scene with his new party, Futuro Nazionale | KNX News 1070 AM

Jun 14 • 9:59 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com

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EU Parliament member and former Italian army general Roberto Vannacci addresses the audience as he concludes the two-day founding congress of his far-right party, Futuro Nazionale (National Future) in Rome,

Jun 14 • 7:13 AM EDT • Politics • springfieldnewssun.com

In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe

In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. Scott told us that this was the 400th edition of his podcast, which is quite a number: My friend Francesco Chiamulera runs a brilliant series of literary events, Una Colline di Libri, A Hill of Books, in the Prosecco Hills, a region of vineyards and elegant hill towns in the Veneto, north of Venice. We did an event in Vittorio Veneto and also drove and biked around the countryside. Buy Autocracy Inc Buy Iron Curtain Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

Jun 13 • 4:15 AM EDT • Politics • anneapplebaum.substack.com

Dems press DOD, DOJ on criminals ending up with Army munitions

The Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, located near Kansas City, Missouri, is a government-owned but privately operated factory

Jun 11 • 12:53 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

The 'Tartan Army' is coming for Providence

Between 6,000 and 7,000 Scottish soccer fans are expected to descend on Providence, Rhode Island for the World Cup.

Jun 11 • 5:51 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

The Latest: Trump says Iran 'will have to pay the price’

The U.S. military launched airstrikes and Iran retaliated following the crash of an Army helicopter, blamed on a collision with an Iranian drone near the Strait of Hormuz

Jun 10 • 8:33 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

US Army helicopter goes down, but President Donald Trump says 'pilots are fine'

The New York Times reported that a U.S. Army helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump has said 'The pilots are fine.'

Jun 9 • 6:04 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Scotland: 2026 World Cup Squad, Fixtures and Schedule

Scotland visit North America for the FIFA World Cup this summer, ending a 28-year absence from the tournament’s biggest stage and giving the Tartan Army the moment they have been dreaming of since F...

Jun 4 • 1:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Draft defense bill would halt cuts, closures of military health facilities

House members are seeking to stop the closure or reductions of services at U.S. military hospitals and clinics.

Jun 3 • 4:41 PM EDT • Health • militarytimes.com

ECU psychologists lead, serve and protect military members

Alumni of ECU’s clinical health psychology doctoral program are using their skills to lead, serve and protect the health of our military.

Jun 3 • 3:24 PM EDT • Health • news.ecu.edu

Former US Army doctor Adam Hamawy will win Democratic House primary in New Jersey, CNN projects

Adam Hamawy, a retired US Army combat surgeon and sharp Israel critic, will win the crowded Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects.

Jun 3 • 2:34 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

USACE FED earns esteemed Army Safety and Occupational Health Star

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Far East District (USACE FED) successfully earned the Army Safety and Occupational Health...

Jun 1 • 8:21 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

Orlando musicians raged outside and inside Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall this weekend for ‘Free Uncle Lou’ benefit show

Local musician Robby Shambles assembled a veritable army of Orlando performers — including TV Generation, Pinko Beats, Warm Like Winter, Tom Haney, Constant Throw, Why Rhyme, Red Lungs, Anthony Smith and Ran Damone — to rock out for Uncle Lou on Saturday.

Jun 1 • 10:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • orlandoweekly.com

Veterans face surprising threat after cancer diagnosis, study reveals

A new JAMA Oncology study finds veterans with cancer face elevated suicide risk that can persist for up to five years following their diagnosis.

May 31 • 11:12 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

JBLM’s Home-Based Business program benefits spouses, families

Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army spouse Gina Henry’s dream is to open her own bistro. And thanks to JBLM’s Home-Based Business Program, she’s working toward making that dream a reality. Henry opened Gina’s Bakery, one of about 25 HBBs on JBLM, in 2025, after moving to the installation in 2024.

May 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • dvidshub.net

Public Health briefs Soldiers on mold prevention at Barracks Stakeholder Meeting

The Fort Bragg Department of Public Health briefed Soldiers living in the barracks on mold prevention during the May barracks stakeholder meeting recent...

May 28 • 6:01 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

How Mary Falcigno ’15 uses AI to support the U.S. Army’s drone program

Mary Falcigno ’15 uses her math and computer science skills at an elite research and technology hub, DEVCOM (U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development

May 28 • 3:35 PM EDT • Science • smcvt.edu

Big Ten on CBS 2026 schedule: USC, Oregon, Minnesota among teams featured in early season action

CBS also has four Pac-12 games including the conference title game, Army vs. Navy and the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl

May 27 • 3:19 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Army veteran’s archery business named Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year

Army veteran Sam Westfall turned archery into a source of healing and community. Now, his business, Valor Archery Challenge, has been named Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year.

May 26 • 11:57 PM EDT • Business • koaa.com

REAL TIME REVOLUTION®: The Science of Defense

During this two-day event, examine Americans work on outfitting armed vessels on Lake Champlain and entrenching strategic locations across the Ticonderoga camp. See how officers in the Continental Army applied centuries of military science that informed Americans’ defense of liberty.Fleet & Fortification programming is included in your General Admission ticket! Tickets are valid for two consecutive days.

May 26 • 9:22 AM EDT • Science • vermontpublic.org

Building Toward the Games: Army Team Sports Competitors Train in San Antonio Ahead of 2026 Warrior Games

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chelsey Scott, left, participates in wheelchair basketball training during Army Team Sports Camp in San Antonio, May 2026. The camp helps Team Army competitors strengthen teamwork, resilience and adaptive sports skills ahead of the 2026 Warrior Games. (U.S. Army photo by Corey Wallace)

May 26 • 8:49 AM EDT • Sports • dvidshub.net

Public Health Command Europe Hosts 71st International Military Veterinary Exchange

Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany --- Public Health Command Europe recently hosted the 71st International Military Veterinary Exchange, bringing together...

May 26 • 5:23 AM EDT • Health • army.mil

Camp Zama Soldiers Connect With Community at Mental Health Awareness Fair

Camp Zama’s Army Substance Abuse Program hosted a Mental Health Awareness Day event May 20 to provide various information and resources for community me...

May 26 • 1:44 AM EDT • Health • army.mil

Top Links 1112 Semiconductor decoupling. Powell's politics. Industrializing Ogaden. Free trade and the Magna Carta.

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. Feliks Topolski, 1907-1989 8th Army’s Front, Italy 1944 Semiconductor decoupling

May 25 • 6:21 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com

Saturday pre-orders – Shake the battlefield with new tanks

Add the Spartan Prometheus and Falchion to your Legiones Astartes army in Warhammer: The Horus Heresy.

May 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com

Munson Public Health Officials Monitoring Tick Activity on Fort Leavenworth

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Soldiers from Munson Army Health Center’s Department of Public Health recovered ticks from the woodlands on Fort Leavenworth following a recent environmental surveillance operation May 19.

May 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Col. Patrick Madigan: Pioneer in connecting mental health to combat effectiveness

Col. Patrick Madigan, was known as the “Father of Army Neuropsychiatry,” strengthening how U.S. Army medicine provided mental health support for the force

May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award

Undergraduate senior biochemistry student Lillian Ott (Mohanty group) has been awarded the 2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious honors for graduate students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The program, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, supports doctoral students across a broad range of scientific and technological fields of strategic importance. This highly competitive fellowship provides full tuition, fees, and a monthly stipend for three years. In 2026, only 102 fellowships were awarded nationwide. Lillian also received an honorable mention for the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Studying biochemistry at UCLA, Lillian became excited about how her physical science background could be applied to solve environmental issues. She joined the Subsurface Engineering Analysis Laboratory (SEA Lab) led by Professor Sanjay Mohanty in the Samueli’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In the SEA lab, she has studied the fate and transport of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are ubiquitous “forever chemicals” and known carcinogens that impact water quality worldwide. This fall, she will begin her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University with Professor Nina Zhao. Her research will be focused on metabolomics and the discovery of unrecognized chemical determinants of environmental and human health. “I have seen the serious and unforeseen environmental and health consequences from man-made chemicals like PFAS and microplastics, which are often only appreciated after the damage has been done. I hope that my research can lead to more sustainable chemical design and inform policy and solutions-based innovation in public health and water quality engineering,” Lillian said. Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penjen@g.ucla.edu.

May 19 • 5:20 PM EDT • Science • chemistry.ucla.edu

MICC kicks off 2026 small business engagement, offers one-on-one sessions

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command kicks off its 2026 Advanced Planning Briefin...

May 19 • 3:26 PM EDT • Business • army.mil

MICC kicks off 2026 small business engagement, offers one-on-one sessions

The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command kicks off its 2026 Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry May 18, bringing together contracting professionals, small business representatives and industry partners for a week long engagement focused on transparency, innovation and Army readiness. Hosted May 18-22 virtually by MICC’s Office of Small Business Programs, the 2026 APBI began with day one briefings from senior Army and MICC leaders, including MICC Commanding General Brig. Gen. Freddy Adams and MICC Deputy to the Commanding General Clay Cole. Attendees also heard from the Department of the Army Office of Small Business Programs, representatives from MICC’s Office of Small Business Programs and leaders from the 418th Contracting Support Brigade, 419th Contracting Support Brigade, the Field Directorate Office at Fort Eustis and the Field Directorate Office at Fort Sam Houston.

May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • dvidshub.net

Fort McCoy holds April 2026 meeting of Safety & Occupational Health Advisory Council

Fort McCoy held a special meeting of the installation Safety and Occupational Health Advisory Council (SOHAC) on April 1, 2026, that included Fort McCoy...

May 18 • 3:02 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

Choose your own adventure: A Business Data Analytics alum goes looking for problems

Jeremy Harris’ love of puzzles and a fascination with cybersecurity took him from Army signals intelligence to building an award-winning IT firm in West Virginia.

May 17 • 8:12 PM EDT • Business • mybuckhannon.com

Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene: In some Harry Potter version of 21st-century London, a group of deathless UK Treasury officials gathered from across the last century huddle over warm pints and glasses of Chardonnay. Around the table there are officials from the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1970s, 2022 and today. Inevitably, in May 2026, the subject of conversation is the disintegration of the current Labour government. Despite its huge majority in parliament, it has been reduced to tatters by catastrophic local election result. These exposed the fact that rather than having a government with a clear popular majority, the UK is like most other modern societies divided into 5 segments each of which commands between 26 and 16 percent of the vote. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the leadership at Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street - where the Prime Minister and the Chancellor (Treasury Secretary) work - seem paralyzed. They are caught between mounting discontent over unfairness and the cost of living, and tough fiscal strictures that push them into making unpopular spending decisions. In the London pub, the Treasury officials from across the ages, can barely hide their satisfaction at the latest display of democratic politics caught in the vice-grip of financial logic. “Remember the mur d’argent and the banker’s ramp?” “Just like yesterday!” There are smirks around the table. Then the representative of 2026 pipes up: “One thing you have to say about the current lot (referring to the latest hapless Labour government), you don’t have to teach them about the bond market!” There is a murmur of ascent from the Treasury Mandarins. The trauma of the fiscal crisis of September-October 2022 sits deep. Back then, in the final stages of Tory decay, a ‘mini budget’ that challenged fiscal orthodoxy led to a brief but fierce panic in one of the oldest government bond markets in the world (aka gilt market). Now all you have to do is to mention the “bond market” to hush debate. [ Paul Mason@paulmasonnews In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/ 3:57 PM · May 12, 2026 · 466K Views 224 Replies · 674 Reposts · 3.93K Likes ](https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/2054229532404519082?s=20) “And the funny thing is”, the young man in the huddle continues, “they don’t even want to talk about … ”. There is a sudden hush. Significant looks are exchanged around the table. About? One of the senior figures puts down his glass with a decisive “clink”. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has entered their thoughts. Meanwhile, a few miles away in a grubby pub in Bloomsbury, two conspirators from the camp of Critical Macrofinance huddle over cans of low-alcohol IPA. They look at each other and blurt out loud: “The Bank!” “Everyone in the bloody Labour party is talking about the bond market. But why aren’t they even mentioning … the Bank of England!?” “Why is no one talking about Voldemort?” In Paul Mason’s blogpost, after much chest-thumping about basic fiscal logic, the basic point about the Bank of England is buried in the fine print at #3 in his list of suggestions as to what a radical Labour government might actually be able to do! [ Conflict & Democracy Down with the bond market! Down with gravity! It may seem unfair to focus on Labour MP Paula Barker for her off-the-cuff assertion that the bond market would have to “fall in line” with Andy Burnham, should he replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. But Burnham himself told the New Statesman that Labour had to “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets… Read more 2 days ago · 100 likes · 3 comments · Paul Mason ](https://htsf.substack.com/p/down-with-the-bond-market-down-with?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web) Back in Bloomsbury they shake their heads and ask: “Didn’t we learn anything from the Eurozone crisis?” Meanwhile, as if summoned to the conversation by some higher force, the “pink pages” announce: “The days of ultra-cheap government borrowing have come to an end” and Martin “Whizzard” Wolf publishes the graph of the season Look at the UK in 2026, perilously positioned on the upper edge of the pack. No wonder no one in London needs any lessons about the “bond market”. But, look again. Imagine how they feel in Rome. What is London’s nightmare in 2026? The nightmare is that you end up like Italy in the early 2010s during the Eurozone crisis. Once comfortably situated in the middle of the pack, watching with horror as your ten-year yields explode to 7 percent and “spreads” become a national nightmare. One of the largest economies in Europe, a founding member of the euro, stigmatized. But the message of the Italian experience is ambiguous. After all, the stigma didn’t last. In 2026, Italy borrows at rates lower not only than the UK but the US. The US, which, as everyone knows, enjoys the “exorbitant privilege” of being the issuer of reserve, safe asets. What kind of magic is this? How did Italy, in the space of fifteen years, go from being good, to bad and back again? Which brings us back to our dissident friends in their Bloombury boozer and their memories of the Eurozone crisis. Italy never was Britain - with its ongoing fiscal deficits. Without interest payments, on primary balance, from 2000 to 2020 Italy ran a tight fiscal ship. Even in 2008 it barely went into deficit and when it was being put on the rack in the early 20210s its primary surplus matched that of austere Germany. So, what happened? How did it end up stigmatized? Of course Italian politics didn’t help. Berlusconi was at the helm and he had legal issues. But amongst friends in the Bloomsbury pub, Berlusconi is a sideshow, the name we whisper to each other is “Trichet”. From 2004 to 2011 the ECB was headed by Jean-Claude Trichet, ex of the French Treasury, more German than the Germans. After 2009 as the news of the Greek fiscal disaster broke, the European bond markets wento into panic mode and Trichet began a brutal game of cat and mouse. Between 2009 and 2011, Trichet intervened in the bond market to help, only when he thought he had compliance with austerity. When he thought they were uncooperative, he withdrew. In the summer of 2011, he even made direct suggestions to his Italian counterparts in Rome, as to how Italy should be governed. It was this cat and mouse game that drove the bond markets crazy and exposed Italy to a violent squeeze. When Mario Draghi took over the ECB at the end of 2011 and declared “whatever it takes”, the pressure on Italy, gradually eased. It is that starring role that has made Draghi into the towering figure in European politics that he remains today. So now you see why voices in London hush when it comes to the Bank of England. “The bond market” isn’t an irresistible objective force like the weather or an avalanche. It can appear like that. But that depends on the way it is being handled, or not handled by the central bank. Which is why the silence about the Bank of England in London right now is so significant. If you think this all sounds a bit fishy, coming from a left-liberal Keynesian like myself, well, let me introduce you to Robin Brooks, who, to put it mildly, plays on a different quidditch team to me. Here, from the position of a fiscal hawk is Robin’s celebratory account of the Bank of England’s role since 2022; In October 2022, at the height of the bond market blow-up in the UK, something incredible happened. Governor Andrew Bailey told British pension funds the Bank of England would end its support program for the country’s fragile gilt market, drawing a line under how much help the central bank was willing to give to exposed pension funds and - implicitly - the government. By the end of that week, Kwasi Kwarteng - the finance minister - had resigned. Prime Minister Liz Truss would soon follow. This episode is so incredible because it contrasts with what happened in the Euro zone earlier that year. Bond markets in Spain and Italy were under pressure amid high inflation and rising interest rates. In the middle of this, Mario Draghi - Italy’s Prime Minister - resigned, compounding pressure on bond markets of high-debt countries on the Euro periphery. Unlike the Bank of England, the ECB caved. It bought Italian and Spanish government bonds in an effort to cap yields and introduced a new tool that signaled to markets it might do such caps more frequently going forward. Faced with pressure on bond markets, the ECB capitulated to political pressure from high-debt countries like Italy and Spain. The Bank of England stood its ground and toppled the Truss government. This kind of thing has long-lasting consequences. It means markets price a higher probability of yield caps in the Euro zone, which keeps Italian and Spanish yields artificially low, while markets feel free to push up UK yields without fear of central bank intervention. As I flagged in yesterday’s post, this means you really can’t compare UK yields to those of other high-debt countries. The UK looks worse, but only because its central bank isn’t interfering with markets. There’s more to this than just that 2022 episode. The Bank of England has also been much more aggressive in its quantitative tightening (QT) than other central banks. If one motivation for quantitative easing (QE) is to lower bond yields - especially longer-dated ones - then it stands to reason QT pushes yields up. The left chart above shows a four-quarter moving average of UK government debt issuance (black line) in percent of GDP and which sectors absorb this issuance, including the Bank of England (blue bars). The right chart above compares the Bank of England’s accumulation or run-off of government bonds (blue line) with that of other central banks, where this blue line is the same as the blue bars in the left chart. The Bank of England was quicker and more aggressive than other central banks in downsizing its bond holdings, so UK yields will have risen more than elsewhere also for this reason, not just because of Governor Andrew Bailey’s remarks in October 2022. Back in October 2025, after a conversation in New York with friends in British politics, my sense of dysphoria was such that I raised the issue of the Bank of England openly in the FT Since 2008, the UK has slid into a deep economic and political predicament. Growth has stagnated to a degree far worse even than in the 1970s. The Tory leadership’s wager on the Brexit referendum spectacularly backfired, leaving the UK isolated from Europe and at the mercy of its special relationship with the US, many of whose political class regard the UK as a basket case. After years of austerity, the Labour party lurched to the left and then back to the centre. The Tory party has been eclipsed by the populist nationalism of Reform. Any British government should be worrying first and foremost about how to restart growth. Instead, Keir Starmer is beset by shades of the gilt market panic triggered by the Liz Truss government in 2022. The debt level is higher than in recent years, but there is no cause for panic. UK debt is at far from critical levels and of long duration. Whether you want to “take back control” or launch progressive economic policy, a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy. In a country that is a monetary sovereign, this climate points to one thing: a disconnect between the government and the central bank. Since 1997, the independence of the Bank of England has become a sacred cow. But independence is what you make of it. And in the wake of the gilt market crisis of September 2022, relations between the Bank of England and the UK government need a reset. In normal times, there is no doubt that an inflation-targeting independent central bank can serve a country well. But since 2008, the UK and other advanced economies have not had the luxury of such simple problems. To their credit, central bankers around the world have not stood on orthodoxy. After 2008, the US Federal Reserve rescued the global banking system and, through quantitative easing, it stabilised the Treasury market in the face of huge deficits. In Europe, things were trickier. Both the Bank of England under Mervyn King and Jean-Claude Trichet’s European Central Bank played cat and mouse with national governments. This was a high stakes wager that between 2010 and 2012 escalated bond market tension and triggered a disastrous turn to austerity. Shaken by the impact of those shocks, their successors, Mark Carney and Mario Draghi adopted a more protective stance (assuming you were not the government of Greece). Recall that Draghi’s legendary slogan, “Whatever it takes”, was uttered to face down the City of London’s bond vigilantes. In 2015, Draghi launched QE — financial repression by another name. In 2016, Carney used the authority of the Bank of England to stabilise markets following the vote for Brexit, an exemplary demonstration of how central banks can underpin democratic choice, even when those choices are wrong headed. All these were independent central bankers steeped in the best practice of the 1990s, who recognised that historic crises demanded radical action. It was the price surge of 2021-2023 that poisoned the atmosphere. Though the shock came mainly from the supply side, central banks ended up in the dock. Nowhere more so than in the UK. The Bank of England reacted with aggressive normalisation. Faced with a cost of living crisis, the governor called for workers to accept real wage cuts. In early 2022, as gas prices were at record levels and Russia’s army was poised to invade Ukraine, the Bank adopted a stringent programme of quantitative tightening, elevating interest rates. When the Truss government got itself in trouble, the Bank took almost a week to come to the rescue. Rather than enacting a charade of normality, it is time to recognise that in 2025 the UK faces a period of historic transition. To meet this challenge, what is needed is a new concordat with the Bank. This should not ignore inflationary pressures or the long-run trajectory of debt, but should affirm the priority of reviving investment-led growth. One could follow Donald Trump in demanding interest rate cuts. The Bank could shadow the ECB in its commitment to capping Eurozone yields. But the top priority should be to lay the ghost of September 2022. The Bank’s slowing of QT last month was a concession. An immediate and complete end would send the right signal. Such a concordat will not by itself restore sanity to politics, solve the housing problem or rebuild the NHS. But it would help to lift the fear of bond market crisis, which is paralysing the effort by democratic politicians to answer the fundamental questions facing the nation. Now, that call for a new concordat between government and Bank of Englands seems more urgent than ever. The problem is that in October 2025, Starmer still had some authority. Today the government is in tatters. And when you are the “under the harrow” - to echo a phrase of Montagu Norman’s from the 1920s - it is the worst possible time to consider institutional change. To make general arguments at a time of crisis can only seem like special pleading rather than a general argument for long-term change. The same, unfortunately, is also true for the other basic institutional reform that Britain urgently needs i.e. the abolition of the out-dated first past the post electoral system and its replacement by a moderated form of proportional representation. And thirdly - whilst we are saying the quiet parts out loud - Britain needs to reopen the question of EU membership. What the local election results of 2026 show is that this remains a key issue. And what they also show is that there is a clear majority that would favor a return. Until these basic features of Britain’s political economy are addressed the country will carry on its politics as though in a haunted house, governed by governments that lack actual majorities, conjuring up false constraints whilst ignoring the real ones. This one is for DG and MI. I love writing the newsletter. If you enjoy it too and fancy buying me a coffee once a month, you know what to do. Click below! Subscribe

May 15 • 3:04 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com

Munson Army Health Center public health officials offer tips for tick prevention

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Public Health Department officials from Munson Army Health Center discussed ticks, associated tick-borne illnesses and the MilTICK program during a community outreach event May 8 at the Fort Leavenworth Post Exchange.

May 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

11th Airborne Division Launches FROST Program for Senior Leaders' Health

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – The Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) team from 1st Brigade, 11th Airborne Division, has launched a new initiative aimed at im...

May 13 • 1:10 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

DHA-GEIS strengthens biosurveillance, force health protection during African Lion 26

AGADIR, Morocco — A coalition of U.S. military and research organizations deliver integrated biosurveillance support, strengthening commanders’ situatio...

May 10 • 6:01 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

DHA-GEIS strengthens biosurveillance, force health protection during African Lion 26

AGADIR, Morocco — A coalition of U.S. military and research organizations deliver integrated biosurveillance support, strengthening commanders’ situational awareness and directly bolstering mission readiness during African Lion 26, April 20-May 8, 2026. The Defense Health Agency’s Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program coordinated subject matter experts and laboratory partners from Walter Reed Army Institute of Research‑Africa; Naval Medical Research Unit, Navy Region Europe, Africa, Central; the 1st Global Field Medical Laboratory; and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Together they provided pre‑exercise risk assessments, rapid laboratory analysis and real‑time reporting that commanders and medical planners used to protect forces.

May 10 • 2:51 PM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

MICC highlights renewed small business innovation authority

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — The reauthorization of two federal small business innovation programs is expected to strengthen how the...

May 8 • 1:48 PM EDT • Business • army.mil

2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award

First year Materials and Nanoscience graduate student Stéphane Miaule (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious honors for graduate students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The program, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, supports doctoral students across a broad range of scientific and technological fields of strategic importance. This highly competitive fellowship provides full tuition, fees, and a monthly stipend for three years. In 2026, only 102 fellowships were awarded nationwide, and Stéphane is the sole recipient from UCLA. Before transferring from Santa Monica College to UCLA, Stéphane interned at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Marshall Space Flight Center, where he researched the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of lunar regolith, as well as radiation shielding materials for lunar habitation development. At UCLA, he joined the Soft Materials Research Laboratory under Professor Qibing Pei, focusing on the synthesis and characterization of hafnium oxide nanocomposite scintillators. After earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry, he remained in the Soft Materials Research Laboratory as a post-baccalaureate researcher for one year before joining Professor Sarah Tolbert’s group as a Ph.D. student. Stéphane’s Ph.D. research is focused on improving the properties of conjugated polymers, which are a family of plastic materials that can conduct electricity. Stéphane is specifically looking at self-assembling polymers that can be processed in water to create light-weight, flexible, high-conductivity polymer devices without the need for toxic or volatile organic solvents. After completing his Ph.D., Stéphane hopes to work in a national laboratory, researching semiconducting polymers for applications in new electronic devices. “The Graduate (1967) featured a memorable scene in which the protagonist was told that ‘there’s a great future in plastics.’ We know this still holds true today, as polymer research has expanded rapidly due to the wide variety of applications these materials enable. Through my work on semiconducting polymers, I hope to contribute to the continued development of plastic electronics,” Stéphane said. Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penjen@g.ucla.edu.

May 8 • 1:21 PM EDT • Science • chemistry.ucla.edu

Military Vets Finally Have a Launchpad for Their Business Dreams in SA

San Antonio is about to become the first city in the country to offer veterans — and their families — a direct path to owning their own business. District 9 Councilwoman Misty Spears is behind a new Small Business Accelerator Program that connects vets with mentors, funding resources, and even a pitch competition — and it's already gotten the green light from the city. Army veteran Melanie McCoy knows firsthand how lonely and confusing starting a business can be without support. Now she's helping lead the charge with a new non-profit called Supply SA, designed so no vet has to figure it out alone. With 75% of San Antonio's economy powered by small businesses, this program could be a game-changer for the whole city. #VeteranOwned #SmallBusinessSA #SanAntonio #MilitaryEntrepreneur #VetBiz

May 5 • 11:40 PM EDT • Business • ksat.com

Women’s Tennis sweeps Army to open UTR Sports NIT Championships

Women’s Tennis sweeps Army to open UTR Sports NIT Championships

May 5 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • roarlions.com

Defense Department proposes splitting military health system budget

The Defense Department wants to split its funding for the military health system to protect military facilities and care.

May 5 • 12:23 PM EDT • Health • militarytimes.com

Army's Dark Eagle hypersonic missile draws focus amid Iran tensions

The US Army's Dark Eagle hypersonic missile is drawing attention after a reported deployment request amid a fragile ceasefire with Iran.

May 1 • 5:02 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Trump knew he would take a political hit for acting on Iran: Veteran

U.S. Army special forces veteran Jim Hanson gives expert analysis on the state of U.S.-Iran conflict while applauding President Donald Trump’s foreign policy efforts on ‘Hannity.’

Apr 30 • 10:08 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Man accused of threatening Trump is Army vet with PTSD, mental health problems

Daniel Swain appeared in Wake County court on Thursday afternoon, a day after he was arrested for allegedly threatening President Donald Trump.

Apr 30 • 3:55 PM EDT • Health • wral.com

How Good Is Google’s Gemini AI at Making Travel Plans?

Gemini is a digital Swiss Army knife for planning flights, activities and routes, but it isn’t perfect. Why did it forget to put underwear on the packing list?

Apr 30 • 5:01 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com

Brain function evaluations to be part of Marine health records

By September, Marines will be screened for blast exposure and overpressure during their periodic health assessments, a Pentagon official said.

Apr 29 • 12:41 PM EDT • Health • marinecorpstimes.com

TOPPERS honors military community theater productions, performers

WIESBADEN, Germany – Fifteen plays, musicals, family shows and the volunteers who made them happen were honored at the 65th annual Tournament of Plays (...

Apr 29 • 3:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • army.mil

Munson Army Health Center to Host Tick Awareness Outreach at Fort Leavenworth Post Exchange

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — As warmer weather brings more outdoor activity, officials from Munson Army Health Center will host a tick awareness outreach event at the Fort Leavenworth Post Exchange from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 5 to help educate the community on local tick-borne health risks and prevention.

Apr 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Three Habits That Can Help Prevent Back Pain

While many factors contribute to back pain or discomfort, focusing on a few core habits can significantly improve your spinal health and reduce the risk of future issues.

Apr 26 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • baptisthealth.net

Exclusive | The Soldier Accused of Maduro Bets: ‘Army People Don’t Get the Business Stuff’

Gannon Ken Van Dyke allegedly made more than $400,000, in part by using classified information to bet on the ousting of the Venezuelan leader.

Apr 25 • 11:51 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com

Deafening Ducks fan "army" earned its Game 3 moment

After eight long years in the darkness, Anaheim fans roared and sent an electric charge into their team for its first home playoff win since 2017 and a single-game record for goals scored.

Apr 25 • 7:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Public Health Command Europe Engineer Attends Iron Major Week

LANDSTUHL, Germany – Environmental Engineer with the Public Health Command Europe was recently selected to attend the Army Medical Department's prestigi...

Apr 23 • 3:54 AM EDT • Health • army.mil

Around the MHS

The latest news from around the Military Health System for the week of April 20-24, 2026, includes the MHS’ new digital health card offering direct access to the Warfighter Brain Health Hub, a U.S. Army orthopedic team supporting the 10th Mountain Division, and the Uniformed Services University advances military dental education.

Apr 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • health.mil

US Army announces new Combat Field Test to enhance Soldier readiness

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army today announced the implementation of the new Combat Field Test (CFT), a major update to its physical readiness program desig...

Apr 22 • 9:55 AM EDT • Technology • army.mil

ICE detains the wife of an Army sergeant in Texas

Deisy Rivera Ortega was being held at El Paso Service Processing Center.

Apr 22 • 8:46 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Ramstein Students Become Environmental Detectives for a Day

Ramstein, Germany– Seventh and eighth graders at Ramstein Middle School recently solved an environmental mystery with the help of local experts. Scienti...

Apr 22 • 3:26 AM EDT • Science • army.mil

Army soldier speaks out after wife is detained by ICE in Texas

Apr 22 • 12:35 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Sports extravaganza brings international military students together at Fort Lee

FORT LEE, Va. — It was a hot day, but that didn’t stop the energy on the field.Laughter and competition filled the air as international military studen...

Apr 21 • 9:52 AM EDT • Sports • army.mil

Munson Army Health Center Soldiers Prove Tactical Readiness, Earn German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Four Soldiers from Munson Army Health Center pushed their physical and mental limits to earn the prestigious German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge April 16.

Apr 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Tuesday letters: Decency in politics, airport spending and banking concerns

Call for decency in public life Our country needs another Joseph Welch moment. Welch was the lawyer hired by the U.S. Army in 1954 to defend it against allegations of lax security at a top-secret...

Apr 21 • 7:50 AM EDT • Politics • postindependent.com

Every test at the US Army's mad science lab

As the military prepares for conflicts in harsher climates, the US Army's Natick Labs invests millions to improve what soldiers wear, eat, and carry.

Apr 17 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • businessinsider.com

Around the MHS

The latest news from around the Military Health System for the week of April 13-17, 2026, includes the U.S. Navy medical team recovering Artemis II, a U.S. Army Captain’s unconventional journey to becoming a dentist, and a first-of-its-kind spinal surgery at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Hawaii.

Apr 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • health.mil

Around the MHS

The latest news from around the Military Health System for the week of April 13-17, 2026, includes the U.S. Navy medical team recovering Artemis II, a U.S. Army Captain’s unconventional journey to becoming a dentist, and a first-of-its-kind spinal surgery at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Hawaii.

Apr 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • health.mil

Sand, science and strategy: Strengthening the shores of Presque Isle

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has just released a very interesting video named ‘Sand, science and strategy: Strengthening the Shores of Presque Isle’. This video shows how the Buffalo District – using modern technology and hands-on expertise – fights erosion and protects the coastline of Presque Isle for the future: This content […]

Apr 13 • 4:43 AM EDT • Science • dredgingtoday.com

DHA offers $300M for health IT deployment support

The Department of Defense has opened a multiple-award solicitation, focused on procurement of enterprise technologies and other IT related to the MHS GENESIS electronic health record.

Apr 10 • 11:39 AM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com

Health Physicists: The Quiet Experts Keeping Radiation Risks in Check

When radioactive materials are involved, whether at a former nuclear weapons site, a decommissioned reactor, or a legacy industrial facility, the goal is simple: protect workers, safeguard communities and reduce potential radiation risks to levels that are demonstrably safe. At the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), health physicists are the professionals responsible for making that happen. Their work is often behind the scenes but always with consequences that matter deeply to the public.

Apr 9 • 11:59 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Former Fort Bragg employee charged with leaking classified information to journalist

A North Carolina woman has been charged with sharing classified defense information to a journalist following her work as a civilian operational support technician at Fort Bragg, a large US Army base in the state.

Apr 8 • 5:45 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

U.S., Georgia partnership strengthens military mental health, resilie

As part of a comprehensive mental health engagement from March 2-6, experts from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Europe-Middle East (WRAIR-EME) and Global Health Engagements (GHE) Branch

Apr 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • usafe.af.mil

Inside the Pentagon, fears of a disrupted war effort after Army chief’s ouster

The forced departure of Randy George in the middle of a war created yet another blow to morale inside the Pentagon, where officials expressed dismay over the state of the department's leadership.

Apr 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com

Hegseth ousts top Army officer, expanding purge

No reason was given for the officer’s firing

Apr 3 • 10:43 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com

Chaos Over Bondi’s Ouster Has Only Begun | WSJ Politics Newsletter for April 3

Plus, the attorney general learned she was out during a limo ride with Trump, and Hegseth removed the Army’s top general

Apr 3 • 6:56 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com

Hegseth tells Army chief of staff to retire immediately

Apr 3 • 4:42 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Building science: USACE delivers high-tech greenhouses for crop research capabilities

Interagency work between USDA Agriculture Research Service and USACE Seattle District are now complete at ARS’ National Clonal Germplasm in Corvallis, Ore.

Apr 2 • 5:59 PM EDT • Science • army.mil

Chisora arrives to Wilder event in tank with Farage

Derek Chisora arrives at Deontay Wilder news conference at London's York Hall in an army tank alongside politician Nigel Farage.

Apr 2 • 3:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Former Army JAG: I worry about ‘extremism’ war in Iran is seeding

Mar 31 • 11:39 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Military Health Care in Korea: What You Should Know

Moving to Korea is an exciting assignment filled with new opportunities, experiences, and adjustments. One of the first questions many arriving service...

Mar 31 • 9:30 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

Snipers test signature management tech to enhance health and safety

Fort Benning, Ga. – The U.S. Army Sniper Course (USASC) at Fort Benning is working to improve sniper survivability and lethality in large-scale combat o...

Mar 31 • 10:11 AM EDT • Health • army.mil

Military Health Care in Korea: What You Should Know

Moving to Korea is an exciting assignment filled with new opportunities, experiences, and adjustments. One of the first questions many arriving service members and families ask is simple: How does health care work overseas? The good news is that U.S. military beneficiaries stationed on the Korean Peninsula have access to a comprehensive health care system that combines American military medicine with one of the most advanced civilian health networks in the world. Through Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) operated by the Army, Air Force, and Navy -- along with TRICARE Overseas host nation providers and hospitals -- patients receive coordinated, high-quality care designed to support readiness while keeping families healthy throughout their tour. Here’s what to expect when receiving care in Korea.

Mar 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Military investigating after Kid Rock brags about U.S. Army helicopters flying over his home, will take ‘appropriate action’ if in violation

The military is investigating after Kid Rock bragged about U.S. Army helicopters flying over his Nashville mansion, and say they will take ‘appropriate action’ if in violation.

Mar 30 • 10:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com